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Re: sgi 8.1.15: online books invoked from the toolchest menu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Tue Dec 2 22:40:28 1997
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 22:40:21 -0500
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: jewell@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> What were you trying to do?
> Read the online books.
> Specifically, I ran the toolchest command from the shell
> then selected "Help" -> "Online Books"
> This created a window called "InfoSearch" which displayed
> some raw html.
This was due to the fact that SGI installs some netscape configuration
info in /usr/local, which has been historically nuked by the Athena
release. The nuking is removed now for Irix, so a reinstall of the
machine should fix it.
Craig